Pictographs and Weather Forecasts

Students practiced handwriting and a spelling strategy this morning (plurals: add s to some words or add es to words ending in ch, sh, s,ss, x, and z). This concept was new for some students.

Next was reading and drawing pictographs in Math. This was the last part of graphing before a quiz on Monday and moving on to addition.

Tornado in a bottle.

In Science we shared answers and findings from the weather stations from yesterday. In Reading, some students went to see Ms. Smith while the rest of the class read a folk story about Mosquitoes and answered questions. Before lunch was a finish up period while Mrs. S read the conclusion to Shipwreck. On to book #2 in the trilogy! The kids in the novel have just been marooned on a deserted island where they are exposed to the elements and must survive. This ties in nicely with our Science unit, describing how extreme weather systems affect people J.

Mr. Wilson was away this afternoon and I taught the class for the afternoon.

After lunch was Silent Reading, Music, and L.A./Art/Science. Students have started their extreme weather report projects. Students chose a topic (blizzard, ice storm, rainstorms and flooding, hurricane, tornado, thunder and lightning storms, or drought) and everyone started their weather map of British Columbia for the project, on 8.5 x 11 paper. Their map will be projected by the document camera (in colour) onto the white screen to serve as a large backdrop for their live weather broadcast (like the weather segment on the news). Students are keenly interested in this project, which will tie together all of the weather concepts they’ve learned.

 

 

 

Notices

Thank you to those students who handed in weather pictures to submit to the Times Colonist. Students can continue to make pictures throughout the school year and I will submit them to the TC in batches. Let’s hope our students’ pictures get published! Students can make as many weather pictures as they’d like (during free time).

Please fill your zip lock Comfort Bag return it to school. Only 1/3 of our class has returned theirs. This Comfort Bag is very useful and important in an emergency, and everyone needs to put together and return one. Thank you.

See you next Monday!

Mrs. Schneider